Florentine style bronze boar fountain, limestone base

After Pietro Tacca (Italian, 1577-1640), patinated bronze fountain of an Italian boar, commonly known as 'Il Porcellino,' sitting by a riverside surrounded by insects and wildlife, the bronze surmounting a cynlindrical carved limestone base depicting underwater creatures and elements of the natural world in relief, including seahorses, bird's nests, flowers, seashells and fish, the whole plumbed as a fountain 67"h x 101"dia. The original of this work by Tacca, sans the cynlindrical base, stands in the Museo Bardini in the Palazzo Mozzi in Florence, Italy. The replica of this fountain serves as a popular tourist attraction in the Mercato Nuovo in Florence, where visitors are known to rub the boar's nose and place coins in its mouth for good luck.